Author : Jennifer Bleazby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780415636247
Social Reconstruction Learning by Jennifer Bleazby Pdf
This volume argues that educational problems have their basis in an ideology of binary opposites often referred to as dualism, and that it is partly because mainstream schooling incorporates dualism that it is unable to facilitate the thinking skills, dispositions and understandings necessary for autonomy, democratic citizenship and leading a meaningful life. Bleazby proposes an approach to schooling termed "social reconstruction learning," in which students engage in philosophical inquiries with members of their community in order to reconstruct real social problems, arguing that this pedagogy can better facilitate independent thinking, imaginativeness, emotional intelligence, autonomy, and active citizenship.